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RUSH: John in southern Illinois, which is not far from southeastern Missouri where I was born and grew up. John, welcome to the program. Nice to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Semper Fidelis dittos, and happy marriage. You may or may not remember me. I called you in March of 2005 to thank you for ten years of wedded bliss with my wife. You were the catalyst that put us together. We\u2019re going on 16 years now, and I hope you and Kathryn and Wellesley and Abbey the same kind of happiness that we have. I do have one question for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, now. You need to explain something here. There are a lot of people listening who love me, but are still going to be scratching their heads over how it couldn\u2019t be me behind a happy marriage for you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I came home from the Marine Corps and I was a cocky devil dog hanging around Carbondale. And my wife did not care for my cockiness —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cocky, oh, yeah, women hate that. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s not true. They say they hate it, but they actually don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. And she found out that I was a Dittohead because somehow or another the word feminazi came out of my Marine lips, that was the other F-word that I used, and she bought me a bottle of Snapple and we have been going out ever since, in August of \u201996 —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So when she found out that you were a Rush Limbaugh listener because of the use of the word feminazi and Snapple and so forth, then she didn\u2019t care that you were cocky?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, she loved it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because I was cocky and right. Now, I have a question for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Out of 16 years of marriage, we have not yet had a Select Comfort bed<\/a> and we\u2019re thinking about getting one when we move over into Missouri. I have a question. Which model do you have, and what is your number?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what model do you think I have? <\/p>\n

CALLER: The best one they have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Top of the line is what I\u2019d recommend, but it\u2019s not necessary, depends on — I mean I got the best king. But the sleep number, now, that\u2019s a personal choice. It depends on the desired firmness that you desire and your wife desires. It changes all the time. Like I have a sleep number, sometimes it\u2019s 75, sometimes I jack it up to 90, you know, and sometimes 50. It depends what you want, that\u2019s the great thing about it, you can change it multiple times a night or once a week or whatever you want.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s awesome. Well, my dad was a World War II veteran, he turned me on to you, we lost him Memorial Day \u201999, and he would be very proud that I was talking to someone he considered a great orator and a great American Statesman. And you, sir, it is an honor to speak to you, and this is the third time I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to get through, and we love you. And we\u2019re praying for you and Kathryn to have the same kind of happiness that we have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. That\u2019s very kind, and God bless your dad. You know, my dad was World War II veteran as well.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: I\u2019m reading your book right now, the book about you right now by Mr. Chafets.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mr. Chafets. You know, it\u2019s interesting, I talked to Zev via e-mail the other day, and he\u2019s been blackballed from a lot of conservative television shows and networks, he has not been invited. He\u2019s gotten some invitations on liberal programs, but no conservative programs are taking him to interview him, which I said, ‘Zev, that should not surprise you, it shouldn\u2019t surprise you at all.\u2019 And he\u2019s plugging away at it out there. You know, I participated with him in writing it. It\u2019s a miniature biography. It\u2019s actually a lot more than a biography, called Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. I actually read it. I read it on my iPad, I downloaded it, where did I get it, the iBookstore or Kindle, I\u2019m not sure which. And I don\u2019t like reading things about me, I never have. Just like I don\u2019t watch myself on television, I don\u2019t listen to myself on the radio. I don\u2019t need to. I hear it firsthand as I perform it. I\u2019m there. I don\u2019t read things about me, and I picked this up or downloaded it, and I read a sentence on this page and jumped a couple pages and I found myself in about an hour turning every page. <\/p>\n

Even though I knew everything that was in it — well, he had some opinions in it about me that I didn\u2019t know, that\u2019s why Army of One is the title. But I had forgotten a lot of the things that he found out by trolling around Cape Girardeau and talking to people, and I\u2019m reading these things I\u2019d forgotten all about. (laughing) I mean, junior high school stuff. So I found myself turning the pages and reading and I thought it was interesting. It\u2019s amazing how fast — oh, yeah, all those eBooks, they download lickety-split, exactly. I got the Barnes &amp; Noble e-reader, Kindle, iBooks on the iPad, coming to the iPhone. Yeah, it\u2019s fascinating to have all that content on one device instead of carrying around all the hardcover, soft covers. But anyway, I was frankly kind of surprised that I enjoyed it and by reading it I kind of lost myself turning the pages, I looked, and it had been an hour. I didn\u2019t run across any, ‘Gee, I wish he hadn\u2019t said that.\u2019 I mean, maybe there were a couple things but my maturity is such that that\u2019s a pointless attitude to have since I\u2019m reading it. To turn and say, ‘Gee I wish it weren\u2019t there,\u2019 is kind of stupid, but it is what it is. <\/p>\n

Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, Zev Chafets the author, blackballed — (interruption) what? Snerdley asked if I was reading things I\u2019d forgotten that surprised me. Some. I\u2019d say a lot of it\u2019s, ‘Oh, yeah, I actually did do that.\u2019 I was proud of it. ‘Oh, yeah! I\u2019d forgotten that.\u2019 I mean, the volume of output, 15 hours a week, 25 years, you gotta throw Sacramento in there, it\u2019s impossible to remember everything you\u2019ve done or said. And so it all came flying back at me, and I said, ‘Dang, that was good, that was clever, that was hilarious.\u2019 Yeah, I was surprised how fast I turned the pages. You know why I was surprised? ‘Cause I knew what was coming. I mean it\u2019s about me. I wasn\u2019t reading something about somebody I didn\u2019t know anything about yet I was turning the pages pretty fast. So I\u2019m glad he\u2019s reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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